Each year, SEALS hosts a Prospective Law Teachers Workshop (PLTW), which provides intensive opportunities for VAPs, fellows, and practitioners to network and participate in mock interviews and mock job talks—prior to the actual teaching market. The Workshop also includes a luncheon (separate ticket purchase is required) and 1-on-1 sessions for candidates to receive faculty feedback on […]

Below are some updates regarding the upcoming SEALS meeting, which is scheduled to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Resort from July 26 to August 1, 2021. We are hopeful that we will be able to return to an in-person format, and we are delighted with our return to the Omni. Of course, the […]

We are seeking participants for a proposed discussion group for next year’s Southeastern Association of Law School’s conference, to be held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Florida from July 26-August 1, 2021. Scholarship in family law is dynamic and often overlaps with other areas of the law, including civil rights, […]

Dear SEALS deans, program committee members, and supporters, I am pleased to report that our 74th annual meeting has come to a successful conclusion. But what an unusual year! Coming into 2020, with terrific help from our members and attendees, we had prepared a terrific program for this year’s meeting. Then, the pandemic hit and an […]

Submitted by Corinna Lain Three-hour long discussion sessions at SEALS are always a bit tricky—it’s fun to get with old friends and make new ones, and fun to brainstorm ideas and geek out on the law, but that’s a loooong time to talk about stuff, even stuff that’s interesting. Sometime after the first hour of […]

Submitted by Gary Simson This 3-hour discussion, masterfully organized and moderated by Joan Heminway, was the first in a series of sessions that will make up this conference’s Aspiring Law Professors Workshop.  The discussion participants included 7 current faculty from across the country, some of whom are or were deans or associate deans, and 15 […]

Submitted by Caprice Roberts SEALS Scholarship Committee Discussion Group Spotlight SEALS Virtual Conference 2020 30 July 2020 Caprice Roberts, The George Washington University Law School Remedies Discussion Group: Remedies in Context We would have loved to connect in person, but our participants and observers found the SEALS Zoom experience to be productive and convivial. We […]

Submitted by Colin Marks Discussion Group: “The Ric Flair Rule: Market Economics, Political Power, and Critical Awareness in a Global World.” This discussion group took wrestler Ric Flair’s saying “To be the man, you have to beat the man” and applied it to a number of modern issues. The discussants brought expertise from tax, bankruptcy, […]

Dear SEALS Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that the 74th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) is still going to be held, albeit in a different format. The Covid-19 virus has forced all of us to abruptly alter our personal and professional lives in ways that we could not […]

Updated 5/4/20 Dear Deans, Program Committee Members and SEALS Friends, I hope that everyone is staying safe during this pandemic, and that you are surviving as best you can. The Covid-19 situation presents a special problem for the upcoming SEALS meeting.  Even if we receive the “all clear” for a late July meeting, which is […]